Private Jets for Congress: Necessity or Waste of Money? Video

While most Americans are struggling to make ends meet during the economic recession, members of congress seem to still be living the high life. The house recently approved nearly $200 million dollars for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets in order to fly top government officials and Members of Congress. But at a time when both private and public agencies are making cutbacks, is this additional spending really necessary? And how do American taxpayers feel about where their money is really going? RT's Dina Gusovsky speaks to Paul Singer, Associate Editor at Roll Call Newspaper.

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AndrenalinRush: HUGE waste

seestuff09: stop making excuses for theft!!!!! who cares about their safety

jerseyflex238: spend more,more,more until you owe everyone and than start war in North Korea so that ur weopons would be bought by China oh no China buys it of Russia...well than IRAN vs ISrael....far away from Cuba and lots of money would be laundered there!

mercenarybdu: get rid of the private jets. Real people could go truck it like everyone else.

Dajuhan2u: waste of money

ecmcomichael: Absolutely the height of hypocrisy! They chided auto execs (who were private citizens working for private companies) for using private jets and then, in a time of recession,buy themselves brand new planes at our expense, when commercials flights are available. Doesn't seem very "green" to me! By God, people, when are you going to wake up and throw out these elitist bums? Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Boxer, Feinstein, Dodd, Rangel, Waters, Schumer, Snowe, Collins, Specter, Waxman, and others need to go!

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agfigueroaa: Jets manufacturer, I guess, were lobbying to approve this. Their industry is going down, therfore they get the Congress to do this. Obvisously, the wanna pass the nazi healthcare reform, while they help their friends who build jets. Free market at its finest!

meka4996: we slaves should serve our masters, bcos we have either no money nor power, oh, how sad are our lives?

roosterrocks: who gives a shit if they keep this up a damn jets not going to help them they need to stop stealing our money

sugarpuddin88: Americans have the Government they deserve! They did nothing about military incursions & genocide in Latin America over the decades; nor the pack of lies used to sell genocide in Iraq where America is responsible for the deaths of over 500,000 children whose only crime was being born in the wrong place at the wrong time, & Afghanistan! Americans are too faint-hearted to prosecute the Bush-Cheney war machine, which would have promoted national reconciliation & defined a collective memory

sugarpuddin88: America bankrupt: 102 trillion for SS & medicare 25 trillion for TARP & bailouts 53 trillion plundered from other trusts Every single American man, woman & child owes over $600K in FED Gov debt The US dollar will collapse within the next 1 to 2 years Check out Rockefeller & Senate Bills 773 & 778 attempting to end American access to the Internet Americans lost all but no. 3 of their Bill of Rights; Geithner has been wrong about everything for 15 straight years! 1 in 10 on US food stamps!

sugarpuddin88: The Government is a growing Tumor & the illegal privately owned FED Reserve is its blood supply! The 2008 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports show the combined unfunded liability of these two programs has reached $101.7 trillion in today's dollars! TARP plus debt to illegal privately owned FED Res is 25 trillion Amount plundered from other Federal Gov trusts: 53 trillion Every man, woman, child in USA owes $600K in FED Gov debt

sugarpuddin88: Take money from the competent & give to incompetent? Daschle, Killefer, & Geithner tax-cheats!; Berney Madoff fraud; Barney Frank was arrested for running a male prostitution ring from his own house when he was supposed to have oversight of Freddie Mack; Sen Dodd for mortgage fraud; US Trade Rep Ron Kirk a tax cheat; etc Tax-exempt foundations are used to conceal and protect wealth from taxes, and to reward corrupt politicians who "went along." Is it now time American citizens break the law?

sugarpuddin88: Just face it: Americans love to bend over & take it like a little yatch! Meanwhile, my Norwegian Kroners are going ballistic - Thank god I rolled all my IRAs, 401s & annuities into foreign currency IRAs Now I'm making a killing! The worse America does, the more money I make! Go America Go!

sugarpuddin88: Currently, the world is forming ad-hoc currency baskets for trade in order to get away from the contamination, which is the US dollar, (google: Shanghai Organizational Coop); & setting up for a new World Order Currency Meanwhile, the USA has Stockholm Syndrome, where the terrorized population through Obama actually supports their terrorist: Last week Obama is actually giving more power to their captors, the Federal Reserve Bank, rather than prosecuting them

sugarpuddin88: I think it's worse than the U.S.S.R., because God and the constitution give the people the power to take their country back, the people could turn this nation a around using the power already at their disposal. In the Soviet Union you would just get shot

anthony6661: you know you love america RT

kdraper2007: they want airplane rides from the airforce? they should have to take the ride in a C-130, sitting on the nylon strap seat that folds out from the wall. just like a sodier would have to.

tejavia: Congress-critters should ONLY take the bus or ride coach on commercial airlines. No. They think they are elites. We are rapidly becoming a fascist country under both political parties. It is time to dump the left - right paradigm and support candidates with "Campaign For Liberty" like Ron Paul and Rand Paul. Dr. Rand Paul is running for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky and coming soon to Austin where his father has strong support from conservatives... -real conservatives.